Final Cut Crashes for apparently no reason

Hi,
I am experiencing FCP crashing for no reason, usually when i click on the timeline after, perhaps, using the source viewer. The spinning wheel starts and then never stops - i never get a 'this programme has terminated - send report' messages - just a constantly spinning wheel.. Can anyone help?
Martin

Welcome to the family.
"For no reason" doesn't help much, sorry, and it usually isn't true. There is something that has happened to your system between the last time FCP worked and now. Maybe you downloaded or installed something odd, recently imported or created corrupt media files, attached a bad drive. Endless possible problems and many more possible solutions. You can search for CRASHING or CRASHES and find most of the discussions and try to figure out what might related to your issues.
The spinning disk sometimes indicates your Mac cannot find something crucial, like System files or the FCP .plist files.
Try to find something more to tell us.
bogiesan

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